2011 - Committee on Exploratory Pre-seed Grants established

The Foundation establishes the Committee on Exploratory Pre-seed Grants. This initiative targets the research community in the Nordic countries, with the Committee awarding grants to accelerate the commercialization of application-oriented research findings and ideas within biomedicine and biotechnology that have the potential to be turned into new diagnostic methods, therapies, assistive devices and technologies. The initiative will run for a 5-year trial period.